Carex maculata

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Family Cyperaceae

Taxonomy: Carex maculata Boott

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Carex maculata var. neurochlamys (F.Muell.) Kük. (taxonomic synonym)
Carex neurochlamys F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (2), Kew_2019_1 (2), Metcalfe_2020_1 (14), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (11), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 43 records in 9 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): green (1); red_brown (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): monoecious (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 2.65 mm (2.3-3 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 1.15 mm (1-1.3 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 1.15 mm (1-1.3 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): nut (2); utricle (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); green (1); red (1); yellow (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_width (numerical): 5 mm (2-8 mm) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2014_2]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
plant_growth_form (categorical): graminoid (2); herb (1); tussock (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_form (categorical): geophyte (1); hemicryptophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): tufted (1) [sources: ATRP_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): yynnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): vegetative (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): belowground_clonal (1); rhizome (1) [sources: ATRP_2020; Metcalfe_2020_1]
storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.48 mg (0.41-0.55 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1 m (1-1 m) [sources: Metcalfe_2020_1]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Metcalfe_2020_1	13	14	D. Metcalfe. “Unpublished data: Database of Cyperaceae traits, CSIRO”. 2020.
NHNSW_2023	7	11	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2014_2	4	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
ATRP_2020	2	2	F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.